Dhaka: A fire at a food and cigarette packaging factory in Bangladesh that killed at least 24 people and injured more than two dozen others on Saturday, spread into the storage area of the building through the night, according to emergency officials.

New Delhi: The Opposition would seek to corner the government for its "attempts to destabilise" states ruled by it and the Kashmir unrest in the Monsoon Session of Parliament from today, but also support the GST Bill which Prime Minister Narendra Modi said was of "national importance".

Dhaka: Bangladesh government today claimed the attackers who slaughtered 20 hostages inside a cafe here in the country's worst terror attack were members of "homegrown" Islamist terrorist outfits and not ISIS militants, as the shocked nation began observing two days of national mourning.

Dhaka: The United States believes that elements of Islamic State are "connected" to operatives in Bangladesh, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday, promising help with intelligence and law enforcement after a wave of terrorist attacks.